Country: Germany
Year: 1997
Duration: 123'
Winter. A small town in the mountains with a chalet and farm. And four citydwellers: Laura, Rebecca, Marco and René. Plus Theo, a local farmer. The two city couples are exhausted and want to leave. Anything can happen in this snowbound environment. Love, sex, even death. There is a strange car accident and an injured child. Coincidence and fate are at work. Nothing will be the same again.
Biography
film director
Tom Tykwer
Born in Wuppertal (Germany) in 1965, Tom Tykwer began making short films in Super8 in 1976. Since 1979 he has been involved with repertory cinemas and he became manager of Berlins Moviemento theatre in 1988. His eclectic interest in the cinema has included reading scripts for several German production companies and, since 1990, to directing programs on cinema for Berlin television.
FILMOGRAFIA
Friday Afternoon (Super8, 1986), Because (16mm, mm, 1990), Epilog (cm, 1991), Die Tödliche Maria (cm, 1992), Winterschläfer (1997).
Cast
& Credits
Director: Tom Tykwer.
Screenplay: Tom Tykwer, Françoise Pyszora.
Director of photography: Frank Griebe.
Art director: Alexander Manasse.
Costume designer: Aphrodite Kondos.
Editor: Katja Dringenberg.
Music: Tom Tykwer, Johnny Klimek, Reinhold Heil.
Sound: Arno Wilms.
Cast and characters: Ulrich Matthes (René), MarieLou Sellem (Laura), Floriane Daniel (Rebecca), Heino Ferch (Marco), Josef Bierbichler (Theo).
Producer: Stefan Arndt.
Director of Production: Maria Köpf.
Production company: XFilme Creative Pool GmbH, Bülowstrasse 90, 10783 Berlin, Germany, tel. +49-3023083311, fax +4930-23083322.
Foreign sales agent: Prokino Puls Filmvertriebs GmbH, Widenmayerstrasse 38, 80538 München, Germany, tel. +49-892101140, fax +498921011411.
Screenplay: Tom Tykwer, Françoise Pyszora.
Director of photography: Frank Griebe.
Art director: Alexander Manasse.
Costume designer: Aphrodite Kondos.
Editor: Katja Dringenberg.
Music: Tom Tykwer, Johnny Klimek, Reinhold Heil.
Sound: Arno Wilms.
Cast and characters: Ulrich Matthes (René), MarieLou Sellem (Laura), Floriane Daniel (Rebecca), Heino Ferch (Marco), Josef Bierbichler (Theo).
Producer: Stefan Arndt.
Director of Production: Maria Köpf.
Production company: XFilme Creative Pool GmbH, Bülowstrasse 90, 10783 Berlin, Germany, tel. +49-3023083311, fax +4930-23083322.
Foreign sales agent: Prokino Puls Filmvertriebs GmbH, Widenmayerstrasse 38, 80538 München, Germany, tel. +49-892101140, fax +498921011411.
